About

Known credits:
59
Birthday:
1970-04-10
Place of birth:
Carhaix, Brittany, France
Website:
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Christophe Honoré

Overview

Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970; Carhaix) is a French writer and film and theatre director.

Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a film in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returned to Avignon to present Dionysos impuissant in the "In" Festival, with Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel playing the leads.

A well-known director, he is considered an "auteur" in French cinema. His 2006 film Dans Paris has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d'amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Honoré is openly gay, and some of his movies or screenplays (among them Les Filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons d'amour) deal with gay or lesbian relations. His film Plaire, aimer et courir vite (Sorry Angel), about a writer who has contracted HIV in the 1990s, won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film in 2018. Honoré has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morel's films. The actors Louis Garrel and Chiara Mastroianni have each had roles in several of his films.

Honoré has also directed several operas for the stage. For the Opéra de Lyon he directed Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2013, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015, and Verdi's Don Carlos in 2018. He also presented his production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and Puccini's Tosca at Aix-en-Provence in 2019; both of these productions adopted a radical approach to traditional works.

In the summer of 2020 Honoré's rehearsals of his stage production of Le Côté de Guermantes, based on the third volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, were interrupted by restrictions to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and it became impossible to present it at the Comédie-Française as planned. With his troupe of actors he decided to make a film about the production and the uncertainties they were now facing, and the film Guermantes was released in September 2021.

Known for

Acting
2022 Winter Boy Actor Claude Ronis 60
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2021 Guermantes Actor 58
Average
2015 Like Cattle Towards Glow Actor 58
Average
2011 Sagat Actor Self N/A
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2008 Sunny Spells Actor Photographe 59
Average
2008 Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Actor Self 59
Average
2002 A Day in the Life of French Cinema Actor Self N/A
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Directing
2024 Le ciel de Nantes Directing Director N/A
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2024 Marcello Mio Directing Director 59
Average
2022 Winter Boy Directing Director 60
Fair
2021 Guermantes Directing Director 58
Average
2021 Ballade de Melody Nelson Directing Director N/A
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2020 From My Home to Yours Directing Director N/A
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2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing Directing Director 59
Average
2019 On a Magical Night Directing Director 60
Fair
2018 Sorry Angel Directing Director 61
Fair
2016 Sophie's Misfortunes Directing Director 57
Average
2014 Metamorphoses Directing Director 58
Average
2011 Beloved Directing Director 59
Average
2010 Man at Bath Directing Director 58
Average
2009 Making Plans for Lena Directing Director 58
Average
2009 Angelo, tyran de Padoue Directing Stage Director N/A
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2009 Angelo, tyran de Padoue Directing Director N/A
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2008 The Beautiful Person Directing Director 60
Fair
2008 Hotel Kuntz Directing Director 59
Average
2007 Love Songs Directing Director 62
Fair
2006 In Paris Directing Director 59
Average
2004 My Mother Directing Director 55
Average
2002 Close to Leo Directing Director 59
Average
2002 Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard Directing Director 58
Average
2000 Nous deux Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2024 Le ciel de Nantes Writing Writer N/A
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2024 Marcello Mio Writing Writer 59
Average
2022 Winter Boy Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
2022 The World of Yesterday Writing Writers' Assistant 58
Average
2021 Guermantes Writing Screenplay 58
Average
2019 On a Magical Night Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
2018 Sorry Angel Writing Writer 61
Fair
2016 Sophie's Misfortunes Writing Screenplay 57
Average
2015 Two Friends Writing Screenplay 58
Average
2014 Metamorphoses Writing Writer 58
Average
2011 Let My People Go! Writing Writer 58
Average
2011 Beloved Writing Writer 59
Average
2010 Man at Bath Writing Writer 58
Average
2009 Making Plans for Lena Writing Writer 58
Average
2008 The Beautiful Person Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
2008 Sunny Spells Writing Writer 59
Average
2008 Hotel Kuntz Writing Writer 59
Average
2007 After Him Writing Scenario Writer 58
Average
2007 Love Songs Writing Screenplay 62
Fair
2006 In Paris Writing Writer 59
Average
2004 Three Dancing Slaves Writing Writer 58
Average
2004 My Mother Writing Writer 55
Average
2002 Novo Writing Writer 58
Average
2002 Close to Leo Writing Novel 59
Average
2002 Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard Writing Screenplay 58
Average
2000 Girls Can't Swim Writing Writer 58
Average
2000 Nous deux Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2015 Like Cattle Towards Glow Production Associate Producer 58
Average